Re: Proposing alt.security.engineering

Keith <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:50:54 GMT
Newsgroups alt.config
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nuno Silva <[email protected]> posted:

> On 2026-01-02, William Stickers wrote:
> 
> > Nuno Silva wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 2026-01-02, William Stickers wrote:
> >> 
> [...]
> >> > I don't think you quite get it. The reason there are not half a dozen 
> >> > usenetters on here explaining the pros and cons of creating this group is 
> >> > because they have moved on. Mostly everyone has, even the spammers have given 
> >> > up. You've missed the party.
> >> > Good luck with sending the newgroup cmsg. I don't know of any NSPs that allow 
> >> > them anymore.
> >> 
> >> Has this changed significantly in the past couple years or so?
> >> 
> >> Just a few years ago at least three alt.* groups were created after
> >> Giganews and Mozilla pulled the plug on news.mozilla.org.
> >
> > I think those alt* groups were prolly made by NSP admins at the request of 
> > users following news.mozilla.org shutting down.
> 
> Then I probably confused or misremembered the means used to create these
> groups, I thought control messages had been used too.
> 

i've been hypothesizing control-level attacks and frankly i dont want to resort
to them but i will because i am a stochastic terrorist :D xah lee is my daddy

what happens when an NSP is subtly infiltrated by people much more sophisticated
than them Lol :D

at what point do you give up, the fact that i have to resort to this is ridiculous.
people love this protocol they love to be able send messages and not be censored.